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Seven Fort Lewis soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan were "decent, ordinary, yet extraordinary" young men to whom the nation owes more than it can repay, Vice President Joe Biden told a memorial service Tuesday.
Fort Lewis has confirmed that eight soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Tuesday were assigned to a unit from the Army base near Tacoma, Wash.
The Army is investigating an anti-war group's claim that it was infiltrated by a civilian employee of Fort Lewis in violation of federal law barring the Army from conducting domestic law enforcement.
The mother of a 33-year-old woman shot to death while working at a kiosk in the Fort Lewis Post Exchange says the man who killed her daughter was a former boyfriend.
An ROTC cadet has died in a night ground navigation exercise at Fort Lewis in Washington.
The Justice Department is dropping its attempt to retry the first commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to go to Iraq.
In a March 10 story about a soldier charged in a 16-year-old girl's death in a Fort Lewis barracks, The Associated Press, relying on Army information, reported erroneously that the soldier had not been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Pvt. Timothy E. Bennitt was deployed in Afghanistan from December 2007 through mid-May 2008, the Army now says.
The Army on Tuesday charged a 19-year-old soldier from Indiana in the fatal drug overdose of a 16-year-old girl at a Fort Lewis barracks.
Army investigators believe the death of a 16-year-old civilian girl at a barracks on Fort Lewis was possibly drug-related, a spokesman said Wednesday.
A Fort Lewis soldier accused of killing two other soldiers at their home and taking their baby was charged Thursday by the Army with murder, burglary, kidnapping and obstruction of justice.
A Fort Lewis soldier killed a married couple — both fellow soldiers — and poured acid on their bodies in an attempt to dispose of them, a prosecutor said Monday.
A Fort Lewis soldier is to serve more than 11 years in federal prison for robbing a Tacoma bank twice so he could pay off debts before he was deployed to Iraq.
A Fort Lewis soldier has been charged with murder in the death of his platoon sergeant in Iraq, though military investigators do not think the killing was intentional, the Army said Tuesday.
A Fort Lewis soldier charged with refusing to deploy to Iraq asked a federal court Wednesday to bar his upcoming court-martial, saying the Army is violating his constitutional rights by trying him twice for the same crime.
An Army officer is recommending that a lieutenant who refused to serve in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal face trial, a Fort Lewis spokesman said.
Army Intelligence Infiltrated and Spied On Anti-War GroupA Yale Law School faculty member and military law expert said he is disturbed by allegations that Fort Lewis employed a civilian who spied on an Olympia-based anti-war organization.
Soldier Shot And Killed While Teaching His Wife Gun SafetyA Fort Lewis soldier is dead after being accidentally shot in the head and killed by his wife in Olympiam the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says.
Fort Lewis soldiers charged in robberies of UW students Three soldiers based at Fort Lewis who are accused of robbing University of Washington students at gunpoint last month were charged with robbery today in King County Superior Court.
Surviving climbers airlifted from Mount Rainier this morningwo climbers stranded overnight on Mount Rainier were rescued this morning by a Fort Lewis helicopter and taken to Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma.
Memories of a StrykerIt's been a bit over six months since Cpl. Christopher J. Nelson was killed in Iraq by a suicide bomber. This little town of 1,800 just south of Olympia, with pastures and small family farms, was his home.
Shot dead, Army couple was then doused with acidTACOMA -- Randi Miller was sitting on her bed. Her husband, Timothy Miller, was in the shower when they both were shot to death Saturday night inside their Parkland home, according to court papers filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court.
Fort Lewis Soldier Held in Murder Investigation of Young U.S. Army Medic Couple - Kidnaps Their 7-Month InfantA female U.S. Army soldier has been arrested (and the infant recovered safely) in a breaking case. She is accused of shooting a couple to death sometime on Saturday and kidnapping their seven-month-old infant. The couple were Army medics at Fort Lewis in Washington State.
Army Base Reverses Course on Monthly Memorials SEATTLE, July 25 — The commanding general at Fort Lewis, Wash., the third-largest Army base in the nation, on Wednesday rescinded a plan calling for a once-a-month collective memorial service rather than individual ones for soldiers killed in action.
Soldiers, Veterans And Families Angry Over Plans To Cut Memorials For Iraq War DeadFORT LEWIS, Wash. — Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high.
No double jeopardy for Lt. Watada Lt. Ehren Watada suffered two losses in court Friday during the Army's second attempt at court-martialing him for refusing to deploy to Iraq last year.
Dead soldier just days from fatherhood The latest Fort Lewis Stryker soldier to die in Iraq was a 21-year-old due home early next week to see his new baby boy. A 21-year-old Stryker infantryman from Fort Lewis was killed Saturday in Baghdad, just a week ahead of the birth of his first child.
Fort Lewis: Army Will No Longer Hold Individual Memorial Services For Dead SoldiersSo many Fort Lewis soldiers are being killed in Iraq that the Army base will no longer hold individual memorial services. Starting next month, Fort Lewis will hold one memorial a month for all the dead soldiers.
Reliving the war — as therapyHal Bernton MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Fort Lewis — The nameplate on the door reads "Virtual Reality Iraq."
Six Fort Lewis Strykers killed in IraqFORT LEWIS Six soldiers from Fort Lewis were killed by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq, the Army confirmed today, bringing the total number of soldiers from the base killed in Iraq to more than 100.
Why Has the U.S. Military Strung Along the Family of a Fort Lewis Soldier Killed by "Friendly Fire."Thirteen days after Fort Lewis Ranger and ex–pro football player Pat Tillman, 27, was killed in Afghanistan, a Fort Lewis military policeman named Jesse Buryj, 21, was killed in Iraq. In life, the famous chiseled athlete and the small-town baritone horn player never met.
Rushed by Bush, Troops Sent to War Without Training"Army officials say the two brigades will be as ready as any others that deploy to Iraq, even though they will not have the benefit of training in counterinsurgency tactics at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., which has been outfitted to simulate conditions in I …
Mistrial in case of US officer who refused to fight in IraqThe court martial of a US army officer who refused to fight in Iraq was ruled a mistrial here after a dispute over a pre-trial agreement.
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